potter

1. 1.

   a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln

   Synonymsthrowerceramicistceramist

   Broadercraftsman

   NarrowerSpodeWedgwood

Other forms of potter

plural

potters·

past tense

potterred·

present participle

potterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about potter

What does potter mean?

potter means "do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potter?

potter has 2 syllables: pot-ter. The stress falls on "pot". In IPA it is /ˈpɑtɚ/.

What is another word for potter?

Close synonyms include putter, mess around, tinker, monkey, monkey around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potter a common word?

potter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.